Milan Lucic lights a fire with hit on Ryan Miller

Milan Lucic’s five-game goal streak came to an end last night, but he still found a way to contribute to the victory. Trying for a breakaway from the neutral zone midway through the first period, Lucic headmanned the puck too far in front, giving Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller a chance to come out of his net and play it first.

Milan Lucic’s five-game goal streak came to an end last night, but he still found a way to contribute to the victory.

Trying for a breakaway from the neutral zone midway through the first period, Lucic headmanned the puck too far in front, giving Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller a chance to come out of his net and play it first.

Miller got there a split-second ahead of Lucic, who leveled the goalie in a spectacular collision near the top of the left circle at 13:12. Miller went sprawling on his rear end, and took a retaliatory swipe with his big goalie stick that just missed Lucic.

Peace was restored quickly and Lucic was penalized for charging, but Buffalo couldn’t take advantage. The Bruins, trailing at the time, scored the game’s next six goals.

“I just wanted to stick around (in the locker room) to say what a piece of (blank) I think that Lucic is,” said Miller, who was yanked after two periods. “Fifty pounds on me and he runs me? It’s unbelievable. ... That was gutless.”

Lucic’s explanation: “I was going full speed so it was pretty hard for me to put on the brakes.”

“We obviously fed off of that,” said teammate Brad Marchand. “It really gave us a lot of energy and emotion and we seemed to play a lot better after that. The fans ate it up.”

With Andrew Ference (lower-body injury) out, Steven Kampfer took his spot, but the Bruins went with mainly a five-man defensive rotation. Ference is day-to-day. Forward Rich Peverley returned, bumping Benoit Pouliot — and not Zach Hamill — up into press row. ... Old friend Brad Boyes, in his eighth NHL season, has never missed a game. The Sabres’ forward owns the third-longest iron man streak (508 games) in the NHL. ... Boston’s defensemen have racked up 18 points in the last five games, two of them goals, both by Johnny Boychuk. They combined for only 16 points over the first 10 games. Zdeno Chara has seven assists in those last five games, Joe Corvo has four. All three times the Bruins’ blue-liners failed to put up a point this season, the team lost. ... When the Bruins wind up this homestand against Columbus on Thursday night, they will have played 13 home games by Nov. 17. They didn’t play their 13th home game last season until Dec. 4, two full weeks later. ... Before last night, the Bruins were 0-2-2 in their last four games against the Sabres, their last win coming in overtime here last Dec. 7.

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